Wed Aug 01, 2007 9:42 am
cyanide wrote:Joe' wrote:Always wondered what those side buttons are for, though. I heard you can set them to your preferences (ie. right-side-button opens Dashboard, left-side-button opens Exposé, etc.) but what do they do by default?
Actually if you squeeze the side buttons, you can assign a function. By pushing down on the trackball, you can trigger another function. So how I have it set now is at 2 buttons, the middle button to trigger Dashboard, and the sides to trigger Exposé.
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el badman wrote:it's pretty easy when you're only targeting uneducated PC users who are unlikely to look for a solution as soon as they run into an obstacle with Vista.
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Mon Aug 06, 2007 4:32 am
cyanide wrote:Hehe, the irony is that Windows still has trouble running just about anything given that every application will probably go through at least one crash
It's just that software developers makes programs for Windows because that's where the biggest market, and therefore, money is. If software developers wanted to, they can develop programs for both operating systems, or just for Macs
It's an excellent productivity machine. I can get my design work done 2-5 times faster than on Windows XP. In fact, my current project was projected to take a week and a half to complete, and I'm almost finished it after three days.
I believe Parallels or VMWare let you play games on a Mac without having to boot Windows.
Mon Aug 06, 2007 4:58 am
benji wrote:"Both OSes" like there isn't a third superior one...
benji wrote:What kind of projects? I guess I don't see how something would be easier just with a slightly different GUI and system interfaces? Laziness holds me back more than Windows or the MacOS ever could.
Mon Aug 06, 2007 5:49 am
A book project I'm working on right now....Maybe the tasks become easier in Windows if I memorized some keyboard shortcuts, but it's how the GUI is set up that saves me a lot of time.
Mon Aug 06, 2007 6:23 am
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Mon Aug 06, 2007 6:42 am
benji wrote:I think you're blowing things way out of proportion with claims like "No need to open/close programs, click a start menu > programs > etc, or have trouble finding a window when the taskbar becomes too cluttered." Like things suddenly go insane if you run more than two programs in Windows. The dock is just a hybrid of the taskbar, system tray and quickstart. Windows is document centric so quick start and the tray are small, task bar big. I personally don't know why anyone wouldn't put things they use often either in the quick start menu or pin them to the inside of the start menu. And I certainly have never had my taskbar cluttered, I'd probably have to have over 25 individual windows open at all times (assuming I wouldn't group them) before it became a hassle. I usually do seven or eight things at once but they can be contained in a few windows. (I mean like Opera/Pidgin/Excel tabs.)
benji wrote:Also, that it's somehow five times faster to trade an extra click here, for an extra click somewhere else.
Mon Aug 06, 2007 7:48 am
Essentially, it's not a matter of mouse clicks; it's a matter of keyboard shortcuts that cuts down the time.
Right now, I have Finder, Firefox, Vienna (RSS Reader), Apple Mail, Address Book, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, InDesign, Bridge, Acrobat, iTunes, FontExplorer X, CyberDuck FTP, and TextEdit currently running right now. All of these programs can be used at an instant without having to wait to open it, and any of those programs or windows can be hidden with a couple keystrokes so I can focus on specific tasks.
With Windows, it's likely a click, move mouse, click, search for program folder, click/highlight, then click.
3. stability, xp is stable, don't get me wrong, and, of course, if you "use it right" it could hypothetically be equally stable. But, the point is that you don't have to use an OSX "right"... it simply IS stable. Personally I would rather use a product that works straight away than have to tweak another thing to achieve the same end.
this may be a (more) personal/subjective thing, I don't know, but sometimes when I'm using xp it feels like I'm somehow working 'against' the os. It just seems to sometimes make things difficult for no real reason, and then I have to go around looking for an answer which drives me mad. osx, more often than not, I can just focus on what I'm doing; the os doesn't get in the way. also, i find dual tasking or even triple tasking with a mac MUCH more effective, I am not sure why.
that said, in the end, if you customize windows xp to your liking, productivity is negligible really.... its never happenned to me, but I'm sure it can happen (because, obviously, in benji and others case it has).
Not that I want to get into a discussion with you, Benji. I'd get pwned. Everyone would. But one thing OS X has that no other OS has is quality software built-in.
I mean, all Linux distros have built-in software, but we can't exactly say the quality is top notch. It's pretty darn good considering it's open-source but it's not nearly as good as any of the software developed by Apple that comes bundled in OS X.
Another thing OS X has over Windoze and Linux is the unified look of the UI: Since almost every application commonly used on a Mac is made by Apple, the looks and the features of the apps are very similar, if not identical.
Also, the ease of use present on OS X is not present on Linux (I don't know you, but I don't like the fact that the OS is made in such way that you have to use the Terminal every time you have to install an application).
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